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Walker Field Shelterhouse

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Area
  
less than one acre

Architectural style
  
Bungalow/craftsman

Added to NRHP
  
27 September 2006

Built
  
1938 (1938)

Opened
  
1938

Walker Field Shelterhouse

Location
  
1305 Ewing Ave., South Bend, Indiana

Architect
  
Goffeney, Otto Julius; Works Progress Administration

MPS
  
New Deal Work Relief Projects in St. Joseph County, Indiana MPS

Similar
  
Potawatomi Zoo, South Bend Museum, Edmund P Joyce Center, Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame Stadium

Walker Field Shelterhouse is a historic park shelter located at South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana. It was constructed in 1938 by the Works Progress Administration. It is a one-story, "T"-shaped fieldstone building. It consists of a gable roofed section with attached hipped roof arcades enclosing space for a wading pool. The central section features three wide segmental arched openings.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

References

Walker Field Shelterhouse Wikipedia